Home sweet home may be a cliche but Allison Guth will certainly tell you how true it is. In fact, she calls it 'kind of a dream come true'. The former Yale University head women's basketball coach is coming back home to her Chicagoland roots after being named the tenth head women's basketball coach at Loyola University.
In fact, she calls it 'kind of a dream come true'.
Just like she was that day some 22 years ago when she scored 7 of her team's 11 points in overtime to help lead the Bison to a stunning 60-51 victory over Washington in the state title game at Illinois State's Redbird Arena. "There are very few jobs which combine purpose, people, place and passion and this one checks all the boxes for me," said Guth, who was working at a fortune five company in Colorado before landing her first college coaching job at Loyola in 2005 when Shannon Reidy brought her on the staff.
"You're never really thinking down the line that much," she said."That's why it's so surreal to me. It's like a whole full circle moment thinking this is where I started and fell in love with college coaching and then getting to come back home to it and seeing the transformation. Just being on the campus has been pretty special.
"I've been so fortunate to learn from great coaches like them,'' she said."They are winners and successful in life. They do things the right way and you don't get the opportunity to learn from this type of people too often.